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The Overlap panel discuss whether Morgan Rogers or Jude Bellingham will start in England's World Cup opener.
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00:00I think he chooses Rodgers.
00:02He's going to stay a game.
00:03I think it's a big call in the first game to leave Bellingham.
00:05He's got the bottle to do it. He's left him out of squads.
00:07He has got the bottle to do it.
00:09I just don't see how he leaves Rodgers out,
00:10where he's been his man in the England team
00:12and he's actually finished the season strongly.
00:14Did he score in the European final?
00:17Honestly, I think this could blow up in the World Cup
00:19or it's how this is managed by both of them.
00:23Tuchel and Bellingham.
00:24So you're not about good travellers.
00:25How do you think Bellingham would be if he's left out?
00:27Roy, you said before you want players
00:30who when they're left out they're going to be angry.
00:35Jude won't take it well.
00:36Why would he?
00:37Because to be fair, he's a superstar.
00:39He'll still get on with it.
00:40That's my point.
00:42You can be a good angry in training.
00:45We've upset him.
00:46Or will he be upset around the camp or through the media
00:48or his family?
00:50It's the baggage with all that stuff.
00:52I just don't mean him, I mean any player.
00:53If Jude didn't start that game,
00:55I guarantee at some stage he would make himself known
00:58in that tournament.
00:59Without a doubt.
01:00He's produced big moments.
01:01Absolutely.
01:02Because he can produce a big moment.
01:04Listen, Morgan Rodgers, if he starts,
01:05no one can say he doesn't deserve that start.
01:08You don't want to send a message to the squad.
01:09It's the World Cup.
01:10It's about winning.
01:11But I think the way he sort of dealt with Bellingham,
01:13leaving Palmer out and forward,
01:15it's almost like a message to the rest of the...
01:17He's the manager.
01:18He's going to make big decisions.
01:19I think he'll start with...
01:21Rodgers.
01:22Rodgers.
01:23I do think, almost maybe by the third game,
01:26I think Bellingham will find himself back in the team.
01:28He's too big of a figure, too much of a good player.
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